Machine for balling yarn.



No. 654,35I. Patanted July 24, I900.

' W. &. D. IWGGEE.

MACHINE FOR BALL|NG YARN.

(Application filed Feb. 14, 1900.) v (No Model.)

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No. 654,351. Paten ted July 24, I900.

w. a n. maze. MACHINE FOB BALLING YARN.

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(No Model.)

WE STATES- PAT NT OFFICE.

WALTER McGEE AND DAVID MoGEE, or PAISIQEY, SCOTLAND.

MACHINE FOR BALLING YAR SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 654,351, dated July 2&, 1900. Application filed February 14, 1900. Serial No. 5 ,158. (N0 model.)

July 20, 1899,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for winding yarn or thread into balls; and it has for its object to provide, in conjunction with the thread-cutting mechanism of such balling machines, mechanical appliances for drawing the cut end of the thread within the convolutions of the ball before the latter is removed from the winding-spindle, whereby the time, labor, and expense involved in so fixing the thread end by hand are avoided.

The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings.

Figure l is a view of the frame of a machine for balling yarn or thread, showing the improvements applied thereto. Figs. 2 and 3 are plans, to alarger scale, of the mechanical appliance in two different positions; and Fig. 4 is an elevation of Fig. 2, taken in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a modification of a detail hereinafter referred to.

In carrying out the invention we secure upon the bracket-support A of the threadcutter B, provided for each ball-spindle, a guide A, wherein is fitted to slide crosswise a rod or bar D, carrying adj ustably thereon a needle E, provided with an eye E and bent or directed toward the cutter B. The needle supporting arm is secured on rod D by means of the clamping bolt and nut D. By loosening the latter the needle may be adjusted on rod D. The adjustment may be otherwise effected. The bar D, with the needle, is re ciprocated or pressed inward by a wedge or cam-piece F, carried by the sliding cutter-bar B, which is actuated in the usual way from a hand-lever, and upon the sliding cutter B is secured a hook or crochet-needle G, which as it moves forward with the cutterbar B is anranged to enter the eye of the needle E. Campiece F has a slot composed of a part J, perpendicular to bar D, and a part K, inclined thereto. L is a rod projecting from standard M, which isclamped to rod D into the camslot., The shape of the slot is such that during the first part of the downward movement of the cutter B (from the' position shown in Fig. 2) rod L is in the part J of the slot and rod D is not moved. During the movement just described the yarn is cut, and hook G is pulled from eye E. Then as the inclined part K of the slot operates on rod L needlebar D is moved backward thereby.

In the operation of the device when the thread ball X has been Wound the cutter is actuated by a cam Hon a shaft N, provided with a hand-wheel O, as shown at Fig. 1, to bring the cutter mechanism into position to cut thelthread, and by the movement of the cam-piece F thereby effected the needle E is pressed through the outer convolutions of the ball-thread, as shown at Fig. 2, the crochethook G at the same operation passingthro'u'gh the needle-eye. The flier of the balling-niachine then moves to lay the thread across the hook G, which on being drawn baclo'on the return movement of the cutter mechanism engages thethread as it is cut and draws the cut end through the eye of the needle E. The movements of the needle E and hook G being suitably timed, the needle E is then retracted clear of the ball X to the position shown at Fig. 3, drawing the cut end of the thread with it through the outer thread convolutions and leaving it in the ball just before the latter is dofied from the winding-spindle Y.

The cutter-operating cam is shown as an approximately-elliptical groove at the rear of the hand-Wheel, in which groove is a 'pin P, projecting from slotted lever Q, which is connected to arm-R of angle-lever S, pivoted at T. The cam when turned thus recipr'ocates the cutter as required.

One of the ,ball-en ding appliances isprovided for each winding-spindle and they are all operated simultaneously by the hand-wheel and by the cam H, which operates the cutters.

Instead of securing upon eachcutter-bar B a cam-piece F the same purpose can be served by the provision of a rotating cam G, as shown at Fig. 5, having a groove in its periphery similar in shape to the slot in the cam-piece F, this groove acting on a pin or roller on the end of a single transverse shaft D, carrying all the eye-pointed needles E employed in the machine;

Having now described the invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pattent, is-'- 1. In a machine for balling yarn or thread the combination with a windingspindle, a rod D, a needle E carried by rod D, and having an eye E, means for reciprocating rod D, cutter B, means for actuating the cutter to sever the yarn or thread, hook G between the cutter and the ball of yarn wound on the spindle, means for passing hook G through needle-eye E and engaging the yarn, whereby the cut end of the yarn will be pulled through eye E and will be drawn through the outer convolutions of the ball by the backward movement of the needle.

2. In a :machine for balling yarn or thread the combinationwiththe thread-cuttingmechanism, of ahook secured to the cutter-bar, a

piece, a needle secured to the sliding bar, said needle havingan eye E in the path of hook G, as specified.

In witness whereof We have hereunto set our hands in presence of two witnesses.

WALTER MCGEE. DAVID MOGEE. Witnesses:

WALLACE FAIRWEATHER, J NO. ARMSTRONG, J unr. 

